picketedadj.
/ˈpɪkᵻtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈpɪkᵻdᵻd/ 1. Surrounded, enclosed, or protected by pickets or stakes.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > enclosed > by a fence or paling
paled1531
impaled1549
palisadoed1612
infenced1613
picketed1755
palisaded1793
ring-fenced1796
fenced in1957
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [adjective] > that will serve as a fence > having a fence or paling
paled1531
impaled1549
mounded1565
palisadoed1612
infenced1613
picketed1755
palisaded1793
fenced in1957
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > palisade or stockade > [adjective]
hurdiseda1500
palisadoed1612
stockadoed1675
stockaded1778
palisaded1793
picketed1885
1755 W. Douglass Brit. Settlem. N. Amer. II. 7 Round it..are five picquetted block-houses.
1758 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1881) XVIII. 102 Two Piquitted Forts or Garisons and A Hospetle.
1776 Jrnls. Continental Congr. 1774–89 (Libr. of Congr.) (1906) V. 534 They had there formed some works of defence, the greater part of them picketed lines, the rest a breast work of earth.
1817 S. R. Brown Western Gazetteer 27 Almost every house has a spacious picketed garden in its rear.
1885 Evening Standard 4 Nov. in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. (1886) V. ii. (at cited word) The old picketed and bastioned forts are disappearing.
1963 New Eng. Q. 36 379 His decisions: to build a picketed fort, to ask for reinforcements and supplies, to send out scouts.
1991 Boston Globe (Nexis) 17 May 29 He appears out of the dark, looking up at the picketed enclosure surrounding Lear's palace.
2. Of a horse or other animal: tethered to a picket.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [adjective] > tethered
tethered1573
picketed1817
tethering1863
staked1865
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. v. 135 The appearance of the picquetted horses, feeding in this little vale.
1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab 170 Many a watch-fire cast a gleam of lurid light on the lines of picketed horses.
1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 97 The picketed ponies, shag and wild, Strained at their ropes as the feed was piled.
1932 Amer. Anthropologist 34 533 The honorific deeds, such as cutting of a picketed horse.
1994 G. Paulsen Winterdance vi. 117 The musher had to..use a stick to push the bowl to where the picketed dog could reach it.
3. Of a workplace, building, etc.: that is being picketed (picket v. 4a).
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society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > [adjective] > relating to strike > relating to strike-breaking > having pickets posted to prevent
picketed1905
1905 H. Cohen Law Strikes & Lock-outs 16 He was watching the employed coming from the picketed works.
1919 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 13 289 Picketing which..attempts by persuasion to induce persons not to trade with the picketed establishment, is not an unlawful invasion of the property rights of the employer.
1992 Daily Tel. 6 Apr. (BNC) Eddie Bradin, an official of the National Union of Public Employees in East Anglia, stood outside a picketed hospital.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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